Nominations for the Hugo Awards (for Science Fiction) are due tonight, and I (FINALLY) have my (SUPER LAST MINUTE) recommendations. Including lots of female artists and writers for the fanwriter and artist categories (which are typically dominated by men)!

Also, Galactic Suburbia put out their annual award for activism and/ or communication that advances the feminist conversation in the field of speculative fiction in 2012, and I’m on the honors list. SQUEEEEE.

I am Pseudonym, hear me roar. I look like Clyde the yellow ghost from Pac-Man, and I similarly go off doing my own random thing rather than chase the pie-face. My favorite expression is “xargs!” which is a Unix command that reads arguments from standard input and uses them to build command lines to execute. My best friend is tac, a reverse cat.

Hair — I got my hair cut recently, noticed a mother trying to manage her daughter’s haircut, and thought about the times that’s happened to me.

For Endometriosis Awareness Month, I wrote I Hate My Hips about a disease that goes further than chronic pain. (If you’re not sure what endometriosis is, I’m writing an introductory series at the PPAZ blog.)

Only one brief post in Fromage this week: my rant for International Women’s Day.

Sick of it started with a tweet. I had been feeling that I ought to write something for IWD, and the tweet got me going. Please forgive any Feminism 101 in the hastily written piece. I grew up in the “legal equality” era, and it has taken time for me to really grasp just how much more there is to our struggle than that.

This week: “Supporting the Tor Project.” In which I talk a little bit about the kinds of privilege underlying being able to blog, the importance of anonymity on the Internet as a bulwark against corporate and government meddling, and of course, the value of the Tor Project, and why one should support them.

I got into a good discussion of Discursive Markers of Submission, reflecting on verbal and non-verbal language patterns to indicate true or false humility, and how these vary (in both usage and significance) by gender.

I reviewed a delightful little mystery by Dorothy Gilman, A Nun in the Closet. (No, not that kind of closet.)

It’s Endometriosis Awareness Month, so we kicked March off with an Endo 101 post, which explains the basics of this relatively common but often misunderstood condition. It’s the first of a three-part series!

Also, today is National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers — and the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. David Gunn. Read a bit about anti-abortion violence, and if you like you can take the opportunity to express some appreciation for abortion providers in the comments.

This week I reviewed Ted Dekker’s Black, which was…not my favorite. It started out as potentially spiritual and ended up taking a hard left into the land of unsubtle Christian symbolism, with fun detours into making all the female characters little more than cheerleaders for the male lead.

If anyone’s interested in talking about the weird-but-tiresome trend of appropriating civil rights dynamics and slapping them onto magical races in urban fantasy, my review of Right Hand Magic is definitely still up for discussion and suggestions.